Glimpses Of 50 Years

Author : Zainul Abidin Rasheed,Norshahril Saat
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814759892

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Majulah!: 50 Years Of Malay/muslim Community In Singapore by Zainul Abidin Rasheed,Norshahril Saat Pdf

The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's formative years. The community has come a long way and accomplished plenty. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong lauded the community's growth and its efforts in nation-building in the 2015 National Day Rally,'The Malay/Muslim community is an integral part of Singapore ... and they have contributed significantly to our nation's harmony and progress.'50 Years of Malay/Muslim Community in Singapore highlights the progress, the contributions and the challenges of the community for the past 50 years since Singapore's independence in 1965. While progress is significant, challenges remain an uphill battle towards a comprehensive community development. As the book narrates stories from the past — the successes and the challenges — it is also important for the community to reflect and to look ahead — Majulah!

Author : Jason A. Edwards,Joseph M. Valenzano
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498541497

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The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion by Jason A. Edwards,Joseph M. Valenzano Pdf

The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Symbols, Sinners, and Saints, contributors seek to examine some of those core elements of American faith by exploring the proverbial saints, sinners and dominant symbols of the American system.

Author : Ruth Bordin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469617497

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Frances Willard by Ruth Bordin Pdf

Frances Willard (1839-98), national president of the WCTU, headed the first mass organization of American women, and through the work of this group, women were able to move into public life by 1900. Willard inspired this process by her skillful leadership, her broad social vision, and her traditional womanly virtues. Although a political maverick, she won the support of the white middle class because she did not appear to challenge society's accepted ideals.

Author : Christine Leiren Mower,Susanne Weil
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443824637

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Women and Work by Christine Leiren Mower,Susanne Weil Pdf

While issues surrounding women and work may be more subtle today than in the past, problems of workplace equity, child-rearing, and domestic labor pose problems of balance that continue to evade solution as women today face substantial shifts in the meanings and practices of marriage, work, and reproduction amid a globalized economy. The essays in Women and Work: The Labors of Self-Fashioning explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—where “work” is defined broadly to encompass not only paid labor inside and outside the home, but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity. How did nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers revise then-contemporary social assumptions about who should be performing work, and for what purpose? How fully did these writers perceive the class implications of their arguments for taking jobs outside the home? How does work, both inside and outside the home, contribute to female identity and, conversely, how does it promote what legal theorist Kenji Yoshino terms the demands of “covering”—women’s strategic use of stereotypes of femininity and masculinity to succeed in the marketplace? In articles appropriate for both upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in literature and literary history, women’s studies, feminist and gender studies, contributors engage these questions, covering both canonical and popular “middlebrow” nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers such as Gilman, Cather, Alcott, Schreiner, Wharton, Le Sueur, Gissing, Wood, Lewis and Mitchell. Women and Work will also interest scholars concerned with this developing discourse.

Author : Craig Brown
Publisher : Picador
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250800145

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150 Glimpses of the Beatles by Craig Brown Pdf

Winner of the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our time "If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this book.” —Alan Johnson, The Spectator Though fifty years have passed since the breakup of the Beatles, the Fab Four continue to occupy an utterly unique place in popular culture. Their influence extends far beyond music and into realms as diverse as fashion and fine art, sexual politics and religion. When they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, fresh off the plane from England, they provoked an epidemic of hoarse-throated fandom that continues to this day. Who better, then, to capture the Beatles phenomenon than Craig Brown—the inimitable author of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret and master chronicler of the foibles and foppishness of British high society? This wide-ranging portrait of the four lads from Liverpool rivals the unique spectacle of the band itself by delving into a vast catalog of heretofore unexamined lore. When actress Eleanor Bron touched down at Heathrow with the Beatles, she thought that a flock of starlings had alighted on the roof of the terminal—only to discover that the birds were in fact young women screaming at the top of their lungs. One journalist, mistaken for Paul McCartney as he trailed the band in his car, found himself nearly crushed to death as fans climbed atop the vehicle and pressed their bodies against the windshield. Or what about the Baptist preacher who claimed that the Beatles synchronized their songs with the rhythm of an infant’s heartbeat so as to induce a hypnotic state in listeners? And just how many people have employed the services of a Canadian dentist who bought John Lennon’s tooth at auction, extracted its DNA, and now offers paternity tests to those hoping to sue his estate? 150 Glimpses of the Beatles is, above all, a distinctively kaleidoscopic examination of the Beatles’ effect on the world around them and the world they helped bring into being. Part anthropology and part memoir, and enriched by the recollections of everyone from Tom Hanks to Bruce Springsteen, this book is a humorous, elegiac, and at times madcap take on the Beatles’ role in the making of the sixties and of music as we know it.

Author : Corinne T. Field,Nicholas L. Syrett
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479806836

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Age in America by Corinne T. Field,Nicholas L. Syrett Pdf

Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives—precise moments when our rights and opportunities change—when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures—from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas—Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship.

Author : Robert Ellison
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004189461

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A New History of the Sermon by Robert Ellison Pdf

This collection offers fresh perspectives on British and American preaching in the nineteenth century. Drawing on many religious traditions and addressing a host of cultural and political topics, it will appeal to scholars specializing in any number of academic fields.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015084572182

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The American Catalogue by Anonim Pdf

American national trade bibliography.

Author : Salem Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B131112

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Finding-list of the Salem Public Library by Salem Public Library Pdf

Author : Salem Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNJAPD

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First[-sixth] Supplement to the Finding List of the Salem Public Library, Salem, Mass., December 1889[-October, 1894] by Salem Public Library Pdf

Author : Michael T Foy
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752499352

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Tom Clarke by Michael T Foy Pdf

Long overshadowed by fellow republicans Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, Tom Clarke was the man who made the Easter Rising possible. During an extraordinary life dedicated to Irish freedom he rose from humble origins and endured thirty years of struggle, imprisonment and exile before becoming a master conspirator in the Easter Rising. Endowed with a charisma and moral ascendancy, he held together a disparate group of followers and they, in turn, recognised his indispensable leadership by insisting that his name alone should have pride of place on the Proclamation. It was a gesture that, in a sense, guaranteed Clarke immortality; it also proved to be also his death warrant. But death held no terrors for Clarke who was to die satisfied in the belief that, with the sight of a tricolour flying over the GPO, he had changed the course of Irish history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:39000005599530

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Bibliotheca Americana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Orville Augustus Roorbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRQRB

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Bibliotheca Americana by Orville Augustus Roorbach Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015074697247

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Addenda to the Bibliotheca Americana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frances Elizabeth Willard
Publisher : Chicago : Women's Temperance Publication Association
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Social reformers
ISBN : UOM:39015009382931

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Glimpses of Fifty Years by Frances Elizabeth Willard Pdf

Willard's autobiography is not only the story of an outstanding woman of the 19th century, it is the personal history of the W.C.T.U., the largest of the 19th century women's organizations.